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Okay, some beginning facts for you:

-My fiance and I live in an apartment in Madison Indiana.
-He lived there for about 6 months before I moved in.
-He claims to have had no previous supernatural/paranormal experiences prior to my moving in.
- I have lived there for about 4 months now
-The appartment is like a shotgun house, you walk into the front door meet the family room which is open to the kitchen [one open space for both rooms], which leads to a 4 foot long hall to another door that leads to our room, the bathroom is right in that door on the right.
-Keith doesn't believe in the paranormal/supernatural in any way, shape, or form
-Our dog, Rikku, only growls when someone she doesnt want near to her either reaches for her or is very close to her.



The creepy things that have happened thus far:

-Random cold spots, I think nothing of this, the appartment itself is cold and very hard to heat, there is almost always a small draft.

-I hear what sounds like a kid, I thought it sounded like my little sister when she was younger, saying my name. A few of my friends have also heard what sounded like a child say their names.

-We leave to take the dog for a walk or go to the grocery. When we leave all lights and electronics with the exception of our desktop computer are always turned off. When we arive home all of the lights are turned on, the xbox is turned on and a game of Halo on Xbox Live is started, the desktop is playing New Moon [which you have to go through 4 folders to get to], and the Television is turned on.

-We lay down in our room to go to sleep, the dog and cat are both laying down with us. We hear what sounds like someone walking around in the kitchen and dragging something against the wall. Out of nowhere Rikku freaks out, runs into the kitchen and starts barking like crazy. Keith goes out there, turns on the lights, shows her that nothing is there and they both come back to bed. Just as I am almost asleep, Rikku starts freaking out again, runs out there and starts barking, yelps, runs back to the bed and looks at the door. She's shaking like mad, then she follows something with her eyes [as does the cat] from the door to the bed and starts growling and barking. We try to calm her down and she proceeds to freak out until she [and the cat] both follow something with their eyes back to the door and they both dart under the covers, both shaking and scared. By this point I am super freaked out and couldn't sleep that night. [Rikku to this day will still randomly freak out around the same time almost every night. As does Bella, our cat.]

-My friend Holly and I were both in the family room laying on the floor talking and we heard heavy footsteps go from the small hallway through the kitchen to the pantry, where the bags are hung on a hook that even I cant get them off without lifting them up. The bags make a noise and fall to the floor, scaring the crap out of both of us.

-I was playing Guild Wars on my laptop in the family room. I get up to go to the bathroom and the door is locked. Mind you, our door is broken, it doesn't shut all the way, the door knob has no lock. The only way to lock it, or even to close it, is to shut it as far as it will go and use the hook lock on the door that goes into the loop on the wall. I'm freaked out, but more pissed off than scared. I tell Keith when he gets home that we are locked out of the bathroom, we go back there, and the door is half way open. He took it as a joke, even when I told him it wasnt a joke.

-The lights randomly go out, usually starting in the room you are in when they first go out, then following you as you walk through the appartment until all of the electricity is off and you have to go reset the breakers.

-The shower curtain randomly opens and closes itself throughout the day.

-I'll take Rikku out for a walk, leaving the door unlocked so I dont have to take my keys with me, come home and the door is locked, dead bolt and all. [I nor Keith have a key to the dead bolt.]

-And the scariest one of all! [So far] Keith and I had cleaned the apartment together. He had taken bathroom duty. His idea of cleaning the shower/tub is sprinkling the ajax powder stuff in the tub and leaving it [leave a man to know how to clean >.<] Anywho, we end up inviting a few friends over, drink a little, play some Wii, Halo, watch some anime, have a small nerdy party. Keith and I go to bed, Holly and CJ wake up at like 8am and leave to go to class. I wake up, and go to the bathroom to do my morning business and the shower curtain is open again. I step out of the bathroom and head back into our room to get my clothes. I look down and there is a white/blue powder on the floor. I dont think anything of it and go into the family room to ask Keith if he's already taken a shower this morning without me. "No, but did you see the footprints on the carpet? They go from the rug in front of the shower all the way to the bed." !!!!! Holy shyte batman! Thinking that Cj had done it to mess with me I ran back there and inspected the footprints. I put my foot next to each one. They were 3/4 the size of my foot. I have the smallest foot out of all of us. I didn't know what to make of it. It scared me, and Keith, and he doesnt believe in ANYTHING.

If you have any idea what could be going on in our appartment, and know of anyway to help it please let me know. If something doesnt happen soon, we're going to have to move and that will suck! Sorry for making it so long as well!!

Thanks!

Thanks so much! He or she is a lot nicer now and has stopped locking me out! I think maybe he or she was abused and either locked in the bathroom by someone or locked themselves in the bathroom for saftey, a lot of the activity has been happening in there recently. I say "hello friend" everytime I walk in the door. I traded cats with my sister. She or he seems to really like this one. And Gandalf[my new kitty] isn't scared of him or her like Rikku is. I'm glad they're becoming such good friends.

I'm glad to have helped. I knew I was experiencing this stuff for a reason! biggrin

If it helps, the manifestations at my mom's did eventually settle down - but it took years of stability. He started acting up when my mom's dad died, because we were both so upset. I think he just wanted to help, though. Most of the time, no one else can tell he's there.